All the world wants to avoid sorrow. They smack down poverty of every kind, as often as they possibly can; material things, financially, social, and poverty of the soul. Yeah, they go after poverty with a vengeance.
But in my life I’ve noticed something interesting. When I had things, and life seemed to go well, I tried to rest there. “This is good enough”, I thought to myself. I figured I could easily live this way all the rest of my life. But sorrow came back. The joy of peaceful stability was ruined.
Sorrow is a friend, it is not an enemy. It does not come to destroy, it comes to teach. Look how Innovative we become after a serious bout of sorrow.
Humanity is like a poor student in school. No matter what needs to be learned there’s always resistance. Humility and wisdom is the key. They both force us to realize we don’t understand hardly anything.
Has your life been a series of sorrowful exploits? Did you find that you just gave up? I did. I became innovative with the mud of my own mire. I didn’t think it would ever stop.
I have to say it was Jesus who transformed me. His interaction with me through the last decade would take volumes to write. But I can summarize how he did it.
He taught me how to make the bed in the morning. He taught me how to do the dishes when I was done eating. He taught me that when I see something needing picked up or done, do it. He lifted me out of my mud pit by teaching me to be dutiful not dooless.
I still face sorrow. It comes to visit nearly every day. But I no longer look at it as an enemy. It is filled with the lessons my teacher desires me to learn. Prosperity is only an honest prayer away.
Monthly Archives: August 2016
Song of Sorrow
We all get it from time to time, that incredibly rude person on the other end of the phone. That driver whose arrogance is near murderous intent. Those contemptuous looks of people who pass us by. And doesn’t the list go on and on and on and on and on.
People could have so much! But they settle for less than nothing. They don’t take the hand of profitability, they embrace willful destruction. Do you think that’s the wrong thing to say?
Hasn’t the Gospel of Jesus has been around for over two thousand years? Doesn’t the power of Christ cause us to be godly people?
They don’t need to be that way. They could be infinitely more than animals. Personally, I am absolutely astounded at the vicious intent of mankind, when so much lays in the hand of Jesus to give.
How serious is it that anyone should utterly ignore the call of Christ?
5 “The ‘gods’ know nothing, they understand nothing.
They walk about in darkness;
all the foundations of the earth are shaken.
6“I said, ‘You are “gods”;
you are all sons of the Most High.’
7But you will die like mere mortals;
you will fall like every other ruler.” (Psalm 82)
When it comes to sharing stuff on the web, why aren’t things like this all over the place?
Good
Define the word “good”.
Now after you just shot some definition at the word, think about the definition you used. Did your mind really define the word “good”?
“Good” isn’t subject to fault.
It doesn’t offer itself to personal opinion.
It doesn’t even wonder whether you are right or wrong.
“Good” is absolute, endless, unwavering, pure, exclusive, wise, dutiful, and all the other words we have to describe perfection.
The next time someone asks how you are, try not to respond “good”. God alone is Good. At best, we are in reasonably fair condition considering the circumstances.
The Lord told us to season our conversations with salt. That means understanding what we say, injecting truth without mercy into our tongue, and making sure people understand that there is good truth to be had. If we don’t display it, who will.
“Fill Er Up”
There was a man who was in the habit of filling the tank on his car with just enough gasoline to get where he wanted to go. He was careful to calculate. And for years he was successful.
Then the day came, that inevitable day. He waited for an hour in Sub-Zero temperatures while the road was cleared so he could proceed. He ended up 9 miles from his next refueling. He froze to death as his car laying in the ditch alongside an empty road.
He had a good idea as long as things stayed stable. But it would be impossible to call his habits wise. What, inside his pee size brain, told him this world was stable enough to act like that?
God calls every single human being to honor his Holy Son and become a servant of Eternal truth and life. I don’t say this to judge but it is a proper question. How many people fill their soul with just enough God to get through the day with some form of prosperity?
There is coming a day for every person, and likely more than one, where their personal religion will not suffice. God is life. How much Life do you carry with you?
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